US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Sept. 23 for "Unlocking toner cartridge by click operation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,775, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Unlocking toner cartridge by click operation" was invented by Changwoo Lee (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Jaeil Yu (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Heonjoo Kim (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Jeongyeon Park (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming apparatus includes a toner cartridge movable to a mounting position in which the toner cartridge is mounted to a mounting portion and a click position further proceeded from the mounting position in a mounting direction; an elastic member to apply elastic force to t...